Creating a group with all values (Even if not in the data) in Power BI
Recently I was working on a client’s requirement where they wanted to group the data into groups! Typically, when grouping data together it will have multiple ranges to group the data into. NOTE: As far as I am aware what I am going to explain and do below is not currently supported. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BACKUP OF…
Using an IN Condition for multiple values in Power Query (Power BI)
In the example I did not want to specify all the country names one row at a time. This not only takes a long time, but if I had to then make updates it could be painful too. The requirement was for certain countries to have their names and the rest be grouped into “Other Countries” I found this useful…
ALM Toolkit would not open (When using External Tools from Power BI Desktop)
I recently got a new laptop and I had to install all my programs again. Everything was going as expected, except when I went to use ALM Toolkit, the program would not open. I would click on ALM Toolkit, I would see it open for a few seconds in task manager and then it would disappear. That led me down…
How to get Power BI Row Level Security (RLS) Role users, details and export to CSV
In a previous tweet on twitter, I had elaborated on how I had extracted the RLS Roles with the details and then exported it into a CSV file which then allowed the organization to keep an audit of the RLS for the dataset. In the steps below I will show you how I did this. In my previous blog post…
Exporting a Power BI Visual data to a CSV File in SharePoint
In this blog post I am going to demonstrate how to use the new Power Automate Flow to extract data from a DAX measure into a SharePoint CSV file. I got this idea after reading the blog post from the Microsoft Power BI Team: Unlocking new self-service BI scenarios with ExecuteQueries support in Power Automate | Microsoft Power BI Blog…
How Power BI Field Parameters works under the hoods
There has been a lot of talk (on Twitter) with regards to the new Field Parameters in Power BI. Marco & Alberto have written a great blog post going into all the details as to how field parameters work, what the query looks and a lot more. I would highly suggest you read it here: Fields parameters in Power BI…
DAX – Getting Distinct Count on Dimension table for Offices that have had Sales
I had a challenge when I was looking to get the Distinct Count of Offices only for the Offices that had Sales. The reason for this measure is to get the % out of all Offices who had Sales. Below is how I solved this. What I did first was to create the following measure, the issue was that this…
Known Issues Power BI Report with Alerting
I was actually working on my own version of the Known Issues Power BI report, when the Power BI team released their blog post New Power BI Known Issue page | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI In the steps below I am going to show you the report I created, and then how I configured it to…
Which Power BI Reports do I have access to? – Part 3 – Creating the “Power BI Users Reports List” report
In this blog post I show the final part which is how I created the Power BI report which takes the previous 3 steps and then creates the Power BI Report. I am going to show you how I got the data in using Power Query and then created the Power BI report. The first part in the series can…
Which Power BI Reports do I have access to? – Part 2 – Using the Power BI Rest APIs for Apps and Apps Users data
This is the second part in my blog post series showing you how I created the Power BI Reports list. In this blog post I am going to show you how I used PowerShell to get all the information of the App Names, reports and users that have permissions in the different Apps. Users can get access to Power BI…